Workshops – Friday March 16 PM

General

Shakespeare knew it all along. Monologues have the power to build a strong connection with the audience. It is storytelling in a clear and imaginative way. There are so many tools to play with: storytelling, how to use the stage, taking risks, how to support a monologue from off stage, what to look for in a monologue and different ways to influence the story. We will explore at least 5 different styles of monologues, and different formats, in which they are useful.

We are not just a bunch of people on stage. We form groups for all kinds of reasons: a mixer team at a festival, a random selection of players in workshops, people with a need for more performance time, geographically formed groups, people who want to explore more, players who just want to escape their house on a Thursday night, …

There are a lot of good reasons to connect and form groups. But after that first connection, how do we continue? What is the (new or continued) reason for this group to come together and stay together? What does it need in order to develop?

This workshop is for everyone who works with groups or is part of a troupe, from ‘newly formed’ to ‘been performing for years’. We will cover some exercises that can help your troupe to find a joint vision, to really see each other’s strengths and growing points, to give everyone a voice without actually having to use our voices. Because we are never just a bunch of people.

In this workshop Torsten Voller will share his experience in hosting and coach the participants to become better in their role as MCs. The workshop will be shaped by the wishes, goals and experiences of the participants and cover the three main parts of the personality of the host, cooperating with the fellow performers and the connection with the audience.

Possible topics are

Discover my own hosting-personality. How am I as a MC?

Hosting authentically

Worst case moderation: The biggest mistakes

The difference between the work as an improviser and the impro-moderator

Character work playing in the world of ordinary/extraordinary; where elves, robots, mermaids, lamps, dogs and Cheetos can all have a point of view. We’ll help you find ways of keeping emotional depth, honest reactions and relatability in play, no matter what the circumstances. .

​To build and to explore characters from your animal spirit. A physical workshop where you leave your brain at the door. Breathe, be still, move, sweat, spit, scream, find the animal instinct we have inside. Play in packs, look ateach other, feel, hear and break free from the group, live, improvise.

The purpose of this workshop is not to draw inspiration from animals to interpret human characters but to play the Animal, whether terrestrial, marine, aerial, underground, gigantic or tiny. At first we will play the Animal in its natural state, on its territory. Then we take him elsewhere, at his biggest predator, the Human.